Category: Review Books

2017: A Year of Literary Nonfiction Celebrating British Women Writers Hat tip to nonfiction scribblers assiduously churning out new literary biographies and criticism about these iconic female authors each and every year. Convinced surely there could be no new angle, I’m always pleasantly surprised when out pops a new one. Wherever this New Idea …

Books mentioned in this post: Review copies: The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan - finished Notwithstanding by Louis de Bernieres The Past by Tessa Hadley The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland by Rory Stewart Mercury by Margot Livesey The Black Notebook by Patrick Modiano (transl: Mark Polizzotti) Purchases: Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton Every Single …

[ARC via Amazon Vine program] Slava Gelman is a young writer trying to get a foothold on the slippery slope from low-ranking nobody to published writer, with a byline in Century, a high-profile magazine where he works. So far achieving little respect, his ideas largely overlooked, he's mired in frustration. If he's to succeed, he …

Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 7, 2015) Language: English $ 23.00 The degree of difficulty involved in writing Adeline must have been great. I can't imagine how long Vincent spent reading bios about Woolf, her letters and diaries. I'm deeply impressed by the breadth of scholarship involved. In her notes, she …

An aside I get so many queries I have to address this publicly. I won't consider reviewing or promoting self-published books at this time, though I'm sure some of you have written knock it out of the park novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc. No doubt I'm missing incredible writing but I am, as do we …

Welcome to the week of Thanksgiving, a time when we Colonials observe the gratitude our ancestors felt for having produced a bumper crop of food to sustain them through the upcoming winter, thanks largely to the help and advice of the Native Americans, without whom we'd have been screwed. As some versions of history have …

Just a sampling, loves. Ah, bookish bookish love... These are a few review copies I have lying around the room, those which aren't scattered further afield. Ideally, I like to keep the bulk of them in the same room - our family room, where the "main" computer is. Realistically, dream on. Silence Once Begun by …

Hardcover: 848 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (October 15, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0316074314 ISBN-13: 978-0316074315 “Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.” - The Luminaries "It’s a lot of fun, like doing a Charlotte Brontë-themed …